So what I did was use the windows activation function using the product key on the original label on my PC. Name required. Mail will not be published required. A Windows product key that tells the system to use OEM activation instead of the traditional Microsoft activation process.
These keys are not specific to a particular OEM and are interchangeable. When you rebuild a PC component 1 is still present but 2 and 3 are missing. Like this: Like Loading November 7, at am. Tobias says:.
January 28, at pm. August 29, at am. Tex says:. February 16, at am. If your backup is properly activated then tool 2 will back up the activation and restore on reinstall. Alternatively, you can just use a key finder tool and copy the key, then reinstall and enter the key again.
If the key is legit, activation will work fine. Could this be used to: 1. Install Vista using an ISO. The newer machine is also having major audio and System Restore issues. Restore this activation info on a clean install on what used to be XP format it first? The machine you want to transfer onto needs Vista to have been on it from the factory because activation information is stored in the system BIOS.
If the target PC has a sticker with a Vista license then you could do it that way. Ok thanks and thanks for fixing my dbl post. Just out of curiosity, can you say where the tokens and certs are located? Anyway, thanks a lot for developing the tool.
Works without a hitch. Glad it worked for you, the tool was coded by us here at Raymond. I had a Toshiba laptop that my father bought in It had to come with Windows 7 preinstalled and Windows XP on a DVD as a recovery solution, but I found there was neither a Windows 7 installation nor a recovery partition. The XP existing installation had all the Toshiba apps and drivers.
So I downloaded the OS from Microsoft with a good tool that gave me the link, then I installed it, after doing backups, repartitioning etc.
I had no problems, except for the wireless card driver I had to download and install manually. Once installed I ran the tool. The process of license installation began, but after installing the license the tool gave an error popup.
The process cannot continue. Luckily the sticker on the bottom of the laptop was still there and readable, so I inserted the product key written on it and at last I activated Windows 7. Maybe it was a problem of my computer, but I reported you this perhaps bug to help you improve this really useful tool.
This is a great disappointment to me as I suffer from a pre-installed Win 7 that Toshiba did not provide me with a Windows Product Key for. This little program looked like an efficient solution. I hope this site has not been hacked or hijacked. Thanks for the info.
No, there is nothing wrong with the file, it creates false positives because of what it does. Of course you are free not to use it of you feel uneasy. That tool has been around since and has been used by millions of people without issue. Yet the AVs on VT love to classify it as malicious without really knowing why. The other FPs are simply created by using the AutoIt scripting language, some AV software mis-classifies a lot of perfectly legit software because it was created in AutoIt.
If you could point me to anything sinister you think might be going on, I will be happy to answer your questions. It only uses a built in Microsoft tool Slmgr. Heh, you almost sound like one of those crackers and warez group….. Developers are fighting a losing battle with places like VirusTotal because they give the wrong impression programs are unsafe.
The scanners used for these services are command line versions which produce different results to the desktops versions. Read about the troubles the famous Nir Sofer of Nirsoft has had with false positives on his tools over the years to see the problem.
Ay yes, I know NirSoft…. You would think so but the definitions in VirusTotal and those in your antivirus can be vastly different and produce very different results, as explained in the VirusTotal FAQs.
These sites should be used as a pointer or extra piece of information, the results should not be taken as fact, which is what a lot of people wrongly do. Thank you. They maybe one out there but I never made one because there was no call for it at the time. Your best bet might be to look over at MyDigitalLife. Thanks to writers like you and the age of the blogs. Microsoft secrets are expose and less money they are getting while they were trying to squeeze every penny they can from unsuspecting customers.
Unfortunately in our society the unique thing that really matter for people is money. It ultimately resolves to raymondcc. Great post i have really been looking for this tool for my laptop.
But though i use vista,i still make backups online oftenly with safecopybackup. It's encrypted, meaning it's not easily readable, but there are several free programs that can help fix that problem in less than 15 minutes. The manual techniques used to locate the product key for older versions of Windows won't work in Windows 7.
Those manual procedures will only locate the product ID number for Windows 7, not the actual product key used for installation. So if you've done this kind of thing before in Windows XP or Vista, you'll need to instead use the process outlined below.
Manually locating the Windows 7 product key from the registry is nearly impossible due to the fact that it's encrypted so you'll need to use a product key finder program to extract it. Any product key finder that locates Windows 7 product keys will locate the product keys for any version of Windows 7: Ultimate , Enterprise , Professional , Home Premium , Home Basic , and Starter. Write this key code down exactly as the program displays it to you.
Most keyfinder tools let you export the key to a text file or copy it to the clipboard. If even one character is written down incorrectly, the installation of Windows 7 that you attempt with this product key will fail.
Be sure to transcribe the key exactly!
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